beernesday

check out the spring edition of what's brewing ! (in particular my article on stadium beers)

camra vancouver held its agm on sunday and gave out some awards and i won one of them! i tied for third place in the local bloggers/writers category (and got interviewed on cfox radio yesterday about fat tug and four winds winning best beer and best brewery, respectively)

if you follow me on instagram or twitter (@beernesday) you'll have already seen all my photos from the moa brewing beer pairing dinner at the pumphouse taproom last friday night but for those of you who haven't yet followed me, here are a few:   prawn and plantain pakoras   flat bread, veggie and meaty options   as always the food was great and paired well with the beers i really liked the moa beers - first time i'd had them and i'm now a fan! thanks pumphouse!

i'll be on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn at 5:50 today talking about fresh-hopped and oktoberfest beers 88.1 fm 690 am in vancouver and then i'll be heading right off to craft beer market for the stanley park beer pairing dinner it's nice to be invited to such events i'm looking forward to giving craft beer market another chance (it did not wow me at all on my previous visit, so i hadn't been back since) and tasting stanley park's two new beers (pale ale and winter ale) i haven't had any of the shadow brand's beers lately, so i'm interested to see what they're up to these days and meet the brewer

stephen quinn is back! i have missed him so i'm especially looking forward to today's beer column cbc radio one on the coast 5:50 pm 88.1 fm 690 am in vancouver i'll be talking about some upcoming local beer festivals and oktoberfests

if you missed me on cbc radio's on the coast last week never fear! you can still catch my chat with gloria macarenko about infusing beer and my ipa picks in honour of international ipa day follow the link to on the coast past episodes click on august 5 and fast-forward to about 10 minutes before the end and hopefully you'll be able to tune in next tuesday (august 19) at 5:50 p.m. for my next beer column

if you missed me on cbc radio's on the coast last week never fear!  you can still catch my talk with matthew lazin-ryder about camra's fuss campaign and how much i love radlers follow the link to on the coast past episodes click on july 22 and fast-forward to about 10 minutes before the end and hopefully you'll be able to tune in next tuesday (august 5) at 5:50 p.m. for my next beer column

beer geek life lessons "Beer is an affordable luxury, and the dividends it pays in flavor and camaraderie are worth the (ever-expanding) expenditures. " joe wiebe on canadian food bloggers reviewing fat tug and full nelson ipas camra president reports that the gov't is slowly realizing it needs to rework the new "unhappy hour" minimum pricing - pitchers can now be priced at $0.20 per ounce and paddy treavor's take on the new pitcher pricing "They cannot really believe we are that stupid to believe this small, token change fixes the EPIC FAIL that is our new minimum drink price standards." i don't think he's impressed i have my ticket to the inaugural vancouver craft brew cruise (8:00 p.m. session) do you?  tix still available for te 11:00 a.m. cruise

i will be on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn's replacement, michelle eliot talking about craft vs crafty beer at 5:50 p.m. today 690 am 88.1 fm

i will be on cbc radio one's on the coast at 5:50 p.m. today chatting about the new (un)happy hour in british columbia and sipping on some dead frog furious friar with stephen quinn 88.1 fm  680 am

wheee! i will be on cbc radio one with stephen quinn at 5:50 today chatting about innovations in beer gear and sipping on some driftwood pilsner doehnel 88.1 fm 690 am

carlos mendes, aka @bcbeerlaw and i snapped at the bc business "the business of craft beer" event last week you can check out the rest of the photos here

friends, abject apologies for my absence of late i am in the midst of having a website made (check out the progress ) and there have been some issues with integration with the blog which locked me out of the blog for a time (and there were the holidaze and all that jazz in there mucking stuff up too, i can't blame the website for my whole absence...) hopefully it's all back to normal from here on out oh, except for the fact that i'll be going away for a couple of weeks in a couple of weeks but more about that later in the meantime, here are some lovely beers that have been arriving at legacy liquor store in vancouver over the past few weeks: Phillips Brewing Black Jackal Imperial Coffee Stout - $6.95 This sweet little collaboration between Phillips Brewing Co. and 2% Jazz Coffee Co. is as dark as the underworld Anubis himself guards. Rich and roasty on the nose with intense aromas of espresso bean and dark malt, on the palate even more roasty espresso and of cou...

shameless self-promotion time check out my cbc website headshot they made me look good! (as in, don't expect me to actually look like this, ever)

if you missed me talking about fresh-hopped beers with stephen quinn last week on cbc radio's on the coast, fear not!  you can still have a listen follow the link, and if you just want to listen to me, fast-forward to the 2:17 mark and if you missed getting your driftwood sartori harvest ipa yesterday, get out there right now, there may still be some left, but it won't last for long!

i had my cbc photo shoot today! they put me in make-up and curled my eyelashes its hard being a girl! i think the pics turned out well and i can't wait to see which one they choose for the website (i hope its one with me holding a beer and smiling) in the meantime here's a selfie so you can share the joy of me in make-up:

in case you just can't get enough of me (and beer!) re-listen to last week's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast  - follow the link, click on the june 25th show and fast-forward to the end i am on about 10 minutes before the end of the show, at the 2:18:30 mark talking about summer beers and blowing stephen quinn's mind with the stiegl radler   now available - the inaugural issue of the bc craft beer news check out the fabulous columns by bc craft beer lovers including me! available at your favourite craft beer location

i have been back on the ambrosia for six days now and i have yet to extol its virtues here bad, bad beer geek! let's work backwards through my past six days last night was beernesday at st. augustine's where i enjoyed a taster flight of howe sound total eclipse of the hops (love this citrusy imperial), hoyne's devil's dream ipa (love this too!), moon under water's victorious weizenbock (cloudy, not too sure about chocolate and wheat together, the banana notes were interesting, and i really enjoyed the new zealand hops) and creepy uncle dunkel (whose vanilla notes were subtle enough for me to enjoy this lovely lager), plus pints of ninkasi total domination ipa (by far the maltiest of my ipas of the evening) and driftwood's fat tug (always a nice way to end an evening) clicky clicky for jan zeschky's review of the hoyne devil's dream tuesday night was cask night at the railway club where i had a lovely jameson-infused stout by central city...

i am totally a paragon of virtue i am still on the wagon, but attending beer events as if i was drinking! 2 cask nights, a beernesday and the r&b '2013 is gonna be great' brewery party - all in one week so i thought perhaps i'd take a moment to pat myself on the back and list the pros of being dry from time to time 1.  the obvious - no hangovers 2.  leading from #1, more hours in the day to get stuff done and have fun 3.  my rings are never tight on my fingers - no retaining water! 4.  my liver gets a well-deserved little break 5.  my taste buds get a chance to recalibrate 6.  people are impressed by my will-power 7.  hopefully those same people will buy me a drink in february 8.  i'll lose a couple of pounds and fit back into my beer t-shirts 9.  if i had a car, i'd be able to drive it home every night! and 10.  that first beer on february 1st is going to taste sooooooo good!

oh, my, [insert diety of your choice here] i went for a run this morning for the first time in (obviously) far too long this clean livin' is gonna kill me! that, after i sat through a beernesday at st. augustine's without drinking any of the fabulous beers on tap my virtuousness is nauseating, i know (day 17, 14 to go) anyway, the new and exciting beers at legacy liquor store in vancouver: Granville Island Brewing Barley Wine - $10.35 The folks down at GIB have decided to turn up the heat with this barley wine. Aged in bourbon barrels, this particular brew has caramel malt character, vanilla and oak flavours and a dose of Pacific Northwest hop. Parallel 49 Russian Imperial Stout - $13.75 Brewed dark and strong just like they did it in the 18th century, this Russian Imperial Stout is whiskey barrel-aged with flavours of smoke, vanilla and dried fruits. Pick up a bottle and drink like a czar. Phillips The Hammer Barrel Aged Imperial Stout - $7.85 The boy...